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FACEBOOK OWNER META has said it will appeal the inclusion of its Messenger and Marketplace products in tough curbs on digital giants that the EU unveiled in September.
Brussels is working through a dense legislative agenda to build tougher regulation of big tech, arguing it needs to protect European consumers online and to encourage competition in an industry dominated by US giants.
In early September, it announced a list of 22 companies — including Meta, Apple and TikTok parent ByteDance — that will face tough new curbs under the application of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The law will force the largest firms to change their ways under a checklist of dos and don’ts and, regulators hope, create a fairer market.
Today, Meta said it would appeal the inclusion of Messenger and Marketplace under the legislation.
“This appeal seeks clarification on specific points of law regarding the designations of Messenger and Marketplace under the DMA,” said a Meta spokesperson.
“It does not alter or detract from our firm commitment to complying with the DMA, and we will continue to work constructively with the European Commission to prepare for compliance”.
The European Commission did not immediately comment on the move when asked by AFP.
In September, the European Commission, the EU’s powerful antitrust body, named 22 “core platform” services belonging to five US tech behemoths identified as “gatekeepers” — Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft — and China’s ByteDance.
The companies involved must fully comply with the DMA by 6 March 2024.
The “gatekeeper” status applies when a service has more than 45 million monthly active users and more than 10,000 yearly active business users established in the EU.
One of the DMA’s main aims is to stop larger players crushing the progression of smaller companies that threaten to become rivals by gobbling them up through takeovers.
The EU has led the way globally for taking on big tech.
The DMA, alongside its sister law, the Digital Services Act (DSA), gives the commission sharper teeth against tech behemoths that critics say have for too long been given free rein to act to the detriment of users.
The gards have an unwinnable situation here, they take down one gang, ” 6 or so ” gangs replace them. Just as well the police in the UK are locking them up, your man with the stun gun would have got a slap on the wrist here and the lad getting 32 years would have got a 2 years with the final 18 months suspended.
@Uncle Montys oaf: haha yeah someone with a stun gun is a real criminal. Waste my tax money on everyone with a taser haha
@Home CCTV: I would imagine that is the most significant conviction they could secure with what evidence they gathered and they are well aware he isn’t just a fella with a stun gun.
Their choices in life is bound to catch up with them, one way or another.
I would imaging there is a new and more vicious breed just waiting to take over.
Everybody except the main men themselves
Wasn’t really a feud now was it…more of a slaughter … one can’t help but think that all this police work just makes things worse. Surely there has to be a better way, they’ve being going around in circles for decades and let’s be honest it’s only getting worse.. I don’t blame the guards I blame the legal system and lack of strategy .
@Tommy Sheridan: the only new breed we all should be very worried about is the government aka Brussels so yes there is no accountability because you don’t get scalded by your master. but it only trickles down so far. Below
@Dave Stewart: would you ever cop on and keep your stupid comments to yourself…..
@Dave Stewart: that’s a bit childish.
@Tommy Sheridan: or you could just blame the drug smuggling gangs ??
Bit of back patting going on here I see. They’ve already got a set up in the states & western Canada.
The people who buy the drugs should be made to understand that they are the cause of all this murdering. The drugs trade doesn’t survive on the back of a few pathetic junkies, it needs working people to spend some of their wages on recreational drugs.
@John Mulligan:
That will never, ever change as long as humans roam this planet. The first humans were finding ways of intoxicating themselves and so are we. Reform is needed to combat organised crime associated with recreational drug use and addiction. Prohibition has failed. It’s as clear as day.
That comment about “wait and see what’s coming” is I think from an earlier time. Larry Dunne and the Dunne gang were the forerunners to all this mayhem. That can be attributed to one of that gang.
@VIncent McGloughlin: Christy ‘Bronco’ Dunne said: “If you think we were bad, wait till you see what’s coming behind us.”
Bring back factory john and the general – life was so simple back then.
@roberto Mankini: Bring back Garda Lugs Brannigan more like.
@roberto Mankini: Because murdering journalists, nailing people to floors and torturing them, blowing up the chief state forensic scientist and assisting the UVF to bomb Dublin was a lot better.
Was it Gilligan or Ward or one of them boy’s that said in court “sure you think we’re bad, wait to you see what’s coming after us”
@Noel Doherty: Charlie Haughey said something similar about Bertie Ahern and he was so right.
@Noel Doherty: one of the Dunne’s of crumlin who introduced heroin into Dublin said that back in the 80s
@Niall Bourke: Bertie wasn’t a patch on Charlie.
@Sal Paradise: Stiff competition there for the worst Taoiseach ever!
@Dom Layzell: did that auto correct “best” to “worst”? Charlie was an incredible leader, best we ever had.
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